Emily Tesh

Silver on the Wood (2019) and The Drowned Country (2020): Audiobook on one of those drives that almost touched both redwood country and Joshua tree country. Very appropriate. Silver in the Wood has very pleasant evocative descriptions and a nice little pining romance between PoV character Tobias, the long lived Wild Man of Greenhallow Wood, and Henry Silver, the new young man in the neighborhood. The character balance is a little odd, as Henry's disliked mother, Mrs. Adela Silver, appears late in the novel and proves to be much more interesting than Henry himself, at least to me.

Drowned Country ( Is stuffed with spoiler thoughts. )

It's not bad, but it is a little off-balance, which is a different sort of enjoyable.